Valve.



' PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

Inventor as I W. T. SEARS. VALVE.

Attorney UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIc.

WILLARD THOMAS SEARS, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR' T NILES-BEMENT-POND ooMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

VALVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented may 7, 1907.

Original application filed April 17,, 1905, Serial No. 255,888. Divided and this application filed April 16,1906. Serial No. 311.856.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ,WILLARD THOMAS ing at Philadelphia,- Philadelphia county,

Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Valves, (Case B,) of which the following is a specification.

This application is a division of my application 255,S88, filed April 17th, 1905.

This invention, ertaining to improvements in valves, wiii be readily understood from the following description taken in con nection with the accompanying drawing which is a vertical diametrical Section of a valve construction exemplifying my invention.

In valves designed for use with liquids at high pressure, say in excess of 1,000 pounds per square inch, a serious annoyance arises from the difficulty of keeping the valves tight, foreign matter, having a very serious effect upon metallic contact surfaces at these high pressures. If relief be sought in the substitution of leather or a like material about the contacting surfaces, then the leather is found to be not durable. By means of my invention, I so combine metal to metal contacts and leather to metal contacts, that I secure a tight and easily maintained valve.

In the drawing:-1, indicates the valve body which may be of any ordinary form: 2, one pipe-opening thereto: 3, the second pipe- 0 ening t ereto: 4, the partition between t e pipe-openings: 5, an opening through this partition and forming, when opened by the valve, the communication between the two pipe-openings: 6, a seat formed around the opening 5: 7, a counterbore in the u pfir portion of opening 5, the annular floor o t 's counterbore forming the seat 6: 8, the stem of the valve, this stein being a fluted guide stem fitting the o ening 5, but, so far as the stem is concerne leaving a liberal passageway for the fluid through the opening. 9, stuflin -boxes at the projecting portion of the va ve-stem: 10, a piston on the valvestem, fitting the counterbore 7, its lower face stopping downwardly against seat 6: and 11, I

a packing of leather or analogous material carried by the body of the piston and engaging the bore of the counterbore.

The valve is illustrated as being closed, the

tightness of the closure being secured by the contact of the packing with the wall of the opening in which the piston works. The

contact of the metallic part of the piston with the seat 6 stands the brunt of the hard pressure, and anyv cutting action which may occur-at this oint of contact will be without effect in modifying the tightness of the valve.

When the valve opens it rises till piston 10 is entirely out of and some distance above the counterbore, the fluid then passing freely into the counterbore and out of the same through the assage formed by the flutes of the stem. hen the valve closes the piston descends and starts to enter the counterbore, cutting off the major portion of the flow, the valve ra idly completing its closing stroke. During this closing motion there is no imprisonment whatever of fluid within the counterbore under the piston as any fluid in the counterbore is free to leave through the flutes of the stem. Proper rapidity of action is thus secured along with satisfactory tightness and satisfactory maintenance of good conditions.

I claim In a valve, the combination, substantially as set forth, of a valve chamber having an inlet and outlet opening and provided with a partition having a counterbored opening between the inlet and outlet openings, a fluted valve stem fitting the smaller opening in the partition, a piston on said stem fitting said counterbore and adapted to seat upon the floor thereof, and a packing of soft material carried by the eri hery of the piston and engaging the we 1 o the counterbore, where- A by when the piston enters the counterbore any fluid between the iston and the floor of the counterbore may iieely leave the counterbore through the flutes in the stem.

WILLARD THOMAS SEARS. Witnesses:

ABCHIBALD M. OBRIEN, SAMUEL O. KANE. I 

